Listening to teachers in Early Childhood Education research

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https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.23.076.DS15

Abstract

This article discusses the listening of teachers in research in the field of Early Childhood Education. What does it mean to listen to professors in research? In addition to seeking to reflect on this issue, it is also intended to discuss the ethical, theoretical and methodological challenges in relation to listening to the Early Childhood teacher, dialoguing about the act of listening in the light of studies by Paulo Freire (1996) and Lévinas (1980). It is a text of a theoretical nature that weaves dialogues with the thinking of these two authors. Freire points out listening as a political act that opens the way to talk to the other and Lévinas, when discussing the ethics of alterity, presents relevant theoretical contributions to the understanding of what it is to listen to others. Listening is a complex human action and, in the context of research in Early Childhood Education, increasingly requires a patient and critical listening from the researcher. It is concluded that the act of listening, in the research, goes beyond the bureaucratic ritual of the production of material in the empirical field and asks for ethics in the production of relationships based on differences.

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Author Biography

Marlene Oliveira dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)

Doutora em Educação.

Published

2023-03-21

How to Cite

Oliveira dos Santos, M. (2023). Listening to teachers in Early Childhood Education research. Revista Diálogo Educacional, 23(76). https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.23.076.DS15